{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/essex-district-boundaries-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/essex-district-boundaries-order-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1598",
  "legislation_title": "The Essex (District Boundaries) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/essex-district-boundaries-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order transfers an area of the district of Braintree and parish of Witham to the district of Maldon and parish of Wickham Bishops. Consequential changes to local government electoral areas are made.\nThe map forming part of this note (page 3) gives a general guide to the areas affected. Prints of the detailed boundary map (described in article 2) may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the Braintree and Maldon district councils, and at the office of the Secretary of State for the Environment, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P3EB\nThe area transferred has approximately an area of 109 hectares, a population of 80 and a rateable value of £11,940.\nThe Local Government Area Changes Regulations (S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247) contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1598/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:20:29.967171+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}